The Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling

Revised to reflect radical changes in the field and their impact on professional practice

Now updated and substantially revised to reflect the CORE/CACREP merger and fundamental changes in the field, this comprehensive graduate-level second edition textbook articulates the complementary relationship between rehabilitation and mental health counseling and how it impacts professional practice. New information is introduced to address the increasing diversity of current and emerging job titles, duties, and settings, as well as to reframe existing content to better prepare rehabilitation counselors for navigating a continually shifting health care system.

The second edition defines rehabilitation counseling as a specialty area of the broader counseling profession, and introduces psychiatric rehabilitation as a bridge to understanding the intersection of traditional rehabilitation and mental health counseling. It emphasizes recovery-based models and describes evidence-based research supporting the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions. Esteemed experts also address specific job functions related to assessment, credentialing, counseling, case management, advocacy, and career development. Four completely new chapters cover the fundamental concepts and models that underpin rehabilitation counseling, the evidence-based competencies that constitute rehabilitation counseling practice, and the specialized practices of forensic rehabilitation, and psychiatric rehabilitation.

New and Key Features

• Reflects the CORE/CACREP merger and its impact upon rehabilitation counseling
• Conceptualizes rehabilitation counseling and its complementary relationship to counseling
• Includes new chapters on fundamental elements of rehabilitation counseling practice and on specialized practice in forensic and psychiatric rehabilitation.
• Addresses changes to CRCC 2016 Code of Ethics
• Covers the infusion of technology into distance education and counseling
• Laces a global perspective throughout with an emphasis on the ICF model
• Reflects the reality of professional practice in the current job market
• Includes new activities to enhance learning
• Offers an Instructors Manual with test item bank, Power Point presentations, and learning activities on applying chapter content
• Provides a model syllabus for Introduction to Rehabilitation Counseling

Michael T. Hartley, PhD, CRC is an assistant professor and coordinator of the rehabilitation and mental health specialization in the Counseling Program, Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies at the University of Arizona. His scholarly interests lie in the professionalization of rehabilitation counseling, including the application of ethical principles. Much of his work has targeted distributive justice issues and therefore his scholarship on ethical obligations has focused on the importance of promoting resilience and of advocating against ableism or the preference for able-bodiedness. Dr. Hartley has collaborated on research grants and was the primary investigator on recent grant-funded research projects focused on developing innovative interventions to support resilience among military veterans with spinal cord injuries. He has also worked to support youth with disabilities during the school-to-work transition to increase resilience and decrease dropout. In the area of advocacy, he has been involved in leadership and research collaborations with Centers of Independent Living (CILs) to teach and empower individuals with disabilities to advocate for themselves. Rooted in the concept of self-advocacy, his research on advocacy has emphasized the use of digital technology as a way for individuals who have experienced marginalization to reclaim power and control over their environments. Finally, his research on salient ethical issues in contemporary rehabilitation counseling practice were used to guide recent revisions to the 2016 Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor (CRCC) Code of Ethics, a taskforce he served on. Dr. Hartley is knowledgeable about the profession and professional practice of rehabilitation counseling, and is committed to defining and better preparing rehabilitation counselors to work ethically and effectively with persons with disabilities.

Vilia Tarvydas, Ph.D., CRC is Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Rehabilitation and Counselor Education Department at The University of Iowa. She has served as President of the National Council on Rehabilitation Education, the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association, and the American Association of State Counseling Boards. She has published extensively on ethics, ethical decision-making, and professional governance and standards and has chaired the ACA and CRCC Ethics Committees. She chaired the CRCC Code Revision Taskforce that wrote the 2010 CRCC Code of Professional Ethics, and was a member of the ACA Code Revision Task Force that wrote the 2005 ACA Code of Ethics, and has been a member of the ACA Ethics Appeals Committee. In July, 2019 she completed a five year term on the Board of Directors of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), where she served as Vice-Chair. Dr. Tarvydas is the lead editor of the SPC publication, The Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling and has contributed to several other SPC publications.